TikToker shares script to flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with fake info

An easy to use iOS shortcut lets non-technical users bombard the site, according to Motherboard's tests. | Continue reading


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Seemingly Normal Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type

A new version of the OMG Cable is a USB-C to Lightning Cable that hackers can use to steal your passwords or other data. | Continue reading


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FTC Orders Spyware Vendor to Stop Business

In a rare move, the FTC ordered SpyFone and its CEO to stop its surveillance business operations. | Continue reading


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Experts Predicted All Cars Would Be Hybrid by 2020. Why Were They Wrong?

"Human beings are terrible at prediction generally, and maybe especially at technological prediction." | Continue reading


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Once again a lack of industry oversight and meaningful rules means the cellular industry wasn’t fully prepared for disaster. | Continue reading


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The Future of Green Energy Is Comically Large Wind Turbines

Building a few gigantic wind turbines is more efficient than building many smaller ones, scientists say. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s Spy in the Jailbreak Community

An Apple spy spent years inside a community that trades hacks and leaks. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook's Ivermectin Groups Are Unhinged and Out of Control

Facebook says it enforces policies against medical misinformation, yet the platform is full of what it claims to prohibit. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

I 3D-Printed a Glock to See How Far Homemade Weapons Have Come

Today’s 3D-printed "ghost guns" can look, feel, and shoot like factory-made weapons. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Reddit Responds to Calls from Moderators to Fight Disinformation

The CEO of Reddit has responded to calls from users to purge the site of disinformation, saying “dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Scientists Just Ruled Out an Explanation of a 16-Day Signal

Never-before-obtained observations of a periodic fast radio burst revealed surprising results that have upended expectations. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

One Billion Years of Time Are Missing in the Grand Canyon

The Great Unconformity, a bizarre gap in the geological record, may be linked to the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet

ISPs are quietly distributing "netflow" data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

AI Can Guess Your Race Based on X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How

Experts say medical images like X-Rays and CT scans allow algorithms to determine a patient's race—and warn it could lead to bias and discrimination. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

World’s Fastest Coaster Suspended Because Riders Keep Breaking Bones

They broke their backs and necks riding the roller coaster in Japan, which goes at what it calls “super death” speed. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple workers collecting stories of abuse, injustice in workplace

"Nothing has changed," the announcement read. "It's time to Think Different." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Unity Workers Question Company Ethics as It Expands from Video Games to War

The lack of transparency around the game engine maker's "GovTech" work, which contracts with the Department of Defense, has concerned employees. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Charlie Brooker in Conversation with Adam Curtis

The friends and collaborators discuss Curtis' new six-part BBC series, 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World'. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk's 'Tesla Bot' Is a Shitpost

Musk warned the robot "probably wouldn't work," but judging by his previous promises and predictions, it might not exist at all. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

We Wait Too Long to Diagnose Psychopathy. Doctors Are Trying to Change That

A new wave in psychology research suggests people with psychopathy could be helped much earlier, if only we acknowledged the scope of their issues. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook: We Show People Completely Random Garbage, Not Nazi Stuff

A report aimed at showing that Facebook is not a cesspool shows it's a slightly different sort of cesspool than critics assert. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s Double Agent

He spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

9to5Mac Writer Paid Source $500 in Bitcoin for Stolen Apple Data

A reporter for 9to5Mac paid a source in exchange for data extracted from a stolen iPhone prototype. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

California Wine Country Towns Are Banning New Gas Stations

A series of towns say it's a statement that they are taking climate change seriously. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s Double Agent

He spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism

"We were fired by the editor-in-chief of a socialist magazine for trying to start a worker co-op," five fired staffers wrote in a letter posted on Tuesday. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan was made possible by a long-planned Taliban campaign of bribes and threats. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Apple Defends Anti-Child Abuse Imagery Tech After Claims of ‘Hash Collisions’

Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

One Star (2015)

I got into the passenger seat. There wasn't a driver seat. But after two turns, something felt wrong: the self-driving Taxy was heading the wrong direction. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

After years of looking the other way, regulators might finally be getting around to caring about Tesla's deceptive self-driving claims. | Continue reading


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Free Pet Rock Clipart Turned into NFT, Sold for $300k

“This is the stupidest or the most incredible decision of our lives,” said one buyer of an EtherRock, which are all based on the same free clipart. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Helping Militias Spread Vaccine Disinformation and Calling Them Experts

A new report finds violent militia groups have become “key” spreaders of vaccine misinformation on the platform. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

British Student ‘Lord Miles’ Evacuated from Afghanistan

According to Facebook posts, Miles Routledge, a student who traveled to Kabul on holiday and posted about it on 4chan, is safely in Dubai.  | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean?

Battery recycling is notoriously expensive, inefficient, and dangerous. Getting better at it is crucial to making sure electric cars are cleaner. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Covid Patients fighting for their lives are still refusing the vaccine

Arkansas has one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country. VICE News embedded at a hospital in Little Rock where patients facing the threat of death still won’t get the shot. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked

"We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Gettr Has a Child Abuse Problem

New research reveals the danger of the platform’s almost complete lack of moderation. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

People Explain Why They Want to Buy Fake Vaccine Cards

Vaccine mandates are starting a new rush for fake cards. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Customer Data Breach

Hackers selling the data are claiming it affects 100 million users. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Why Is 'Second Life' Still a Thing? (2016)

It was never just a game. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Scientists Traced a Wooly Mammoth's Lifetime Journey, and It's Astonishing

Researchers found the mammoth walked a distance equal to nearly twice the circumference of Earth using isotopes of strontium and oxygen. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Passenger and Military Jets Both Report Seeing a UFO over Eastern Canada

A July 30 report describes a “bright green flying object” that “flew into a cloud, then disappeared.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now

It's not clear when the tennis ball shortage will ease. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Amazon to Monitor Customer Service Workers’ Keyboard and Mouse Strokes

An internal document also mentions cases where imposters have stolen Amazon customer data. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit

The community is for "restoring our old ways of life," and is mostly full of conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccinations. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

A Woman Runs One of Biggest Anti-Vax Websites from Her House

By presenting unverified data as fact, OpenVAERS has become one of the most powerful tools in the anti-vaxxer community. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The contagious nature of the Delta variant has meant breakthrough COVID cases are on the rise. Seven people tell us what it was like to have one. | Continue reading


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